14 Facts About Cilliers Brink

Cilliers Brink was born on 12 June 1987 and is a South African politician who was Mayor of Tshwane from 28 March 2023 until 26 September 2024.

Cilliers Brink was the party's Shadow Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs between 2019 and 2020.

Cilliers Brink has had an interest in politics since a young age.

Cilliers Brink joined the Democratic Alliance and was elected to the Tshwane city council in 2011.

Cilliers Brink was placed tenth on the party's Gauteng list of National Assembly candidates, thirty-third on the party's national candidate list for the National Assembly and sixty-seventh on the party's provincial list for the provincial legislature.

Cilliers Brink was elected to the National Assembly on the party's national list.

Cilliers Brink became a member of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 27 June 2019.

In June 2020, Cilliers Brink criticised the national Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, for saying that municipalities should appoint "the right cadres for the job".

Cilliers Brink went on to claim that cadre deployment is responsible for the decline of municipalities and that cadre deployment should be abolished.

Cilliers Brink became a councillor on 23 February 2023 after councillor Sean Cox resigned to make way for him to be sworn in.

Cilliers Brink then resigned from office and council the following day.

Rogue councillors in the multi-party coalition who voted for Makwarela over Cilliers Brink faced repercussions and were expelled.

Cilliers Brink was elected as mayor during a council meeting on 28 March 2023 with the help of the multi-party coalition.

Cilliers Brink defeated COPE's new councillor Ofentse Moalusi, winning with 109 votes to Moalusi's 102 votes.